International Truck Coronavirus Update 11 (Service Drive Revolution)

Welcome, everybody, to Service Driver Revolution, your Covid International truck edition. Because everybody still is on lockdown. Today, we're going to talk about what is on everybody's mind. How can truck drivers get a suntan while driving the best trucks in the industry? We're going to share our favorite podcast. Instead of books, Jeremy had an idea to kind of switch it up today, which I think is pretty good. So. So we're gonna share our favorite podcast with you and we're gonna talk about a resource that is older than dirt, but still relevant and something you need. But first, we are going to do an international HR Truck.

Insider. What would we call it? The Bi Weekly Reconnect, where Adam is going to do his managerial role and. And do his Bi weekly reconnect with Jeremy. And we're going to get to listen in. Jeremy's having a hard time this week because I know a lot of people out there, like everyday people are diagnosed with cancer, right? Can be pretty sad. Also.

A lot of people have lost family members because of COVID or people have Covid. They've been tested and they. They have Covid and they're worried. And Jeremy has bigger problems than that. And we're going to get to the bottom of it today. We're going to go deep, deep into his emotions and he's going to really open up and share with us today. So everybody please welcome Adam and Jeremy to the show. Welcome, gentlemen. Jeremy's having a tough time. I'm excited, Adam, to see your managerial leadership skills here on how you're going to open Jeremy up, sew everything back together and, you know, put him back better than he was. So just pretend we're not even here and let's just start the Bi Weekly Reconnect again.

I feel like. I feel like I might be on the, on the podium here being judged, but, Jeremy, how we doing today, buddy? I mean, you know, today's Tuesday. It's a bright, sunny day. It's not 95 degrees in the Chicagoland area. I heard today that the city of Chicago is going to start opening up schools for the state of Illinois as well. So I'm sure that's bringing some good joy to you as well, you know, coming up here in the fall. So how you doing, man?

You know, I'm a little down, I'd say, Adam. I'm a little down.

A little. He's way down, Adam.

I just. I don't know what to tell you. I just. Everywhere I turn, I'm being bullied by large men with beards all the time, and it's just. It's bringing me down, man.

Are you calling me fat?

This could have been someone.

How can I support.

There's not a lot of people with beards in Illinois with 95 degrees, which means the humidity is like 70%. Right? You shave your beard in that sort of weather normally?

I mean, I don't know. Adam's hanging pretty tough so far. I'll say. And, yeah, I could. I just. I just couldn't hang with you guys. And I feel bad for it. And, yeah, I'm just a little down, you know, I'll be okay, though. Don't worry about me.

Have you had this before, Adam?

Is that what has you down?

What's that?

Is it some of your objectives? Is that some of the things that have you down?

Objectives?

Yeah. Are they a little too steep or what do we got to do to kind of address some of those? How can I help you, my friend?

You know what, honestly, Adam, if you could drive over here and then just talk to me about these. These bearded men, they're just giving me all sorts of trouble, and maybe you can help fix my broken motorcycle. That's the other part. It's.

Oh, broken motorcycle. Can you tell me a little bit?

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I think we got to the heart of the problem.

Well, I have a motorcycle that's older than Chris, which is really old. And it's just. I was riding it down the road, and it started making some really bad noises and hammering on the left hand cylinder. And I just don't think that I can fix it for a little while. So. So I'm essentially grounded now, and I'm really. It's really bugging me. So if you can get down here, bring some tools and some money and that would be.

So let's recap. It's not that your objectives are too high.

No.

It's not that you don't love your job and everybody that you work with. It's not that your wife and you aren't having adult time together.

Read between the lines. It's not that you don't love your kids and they're not well behaved. It's not that you're not diagnosed with cancer. You don't have Covid. But your problem and the reason why you're projecting this negative energy is that your motorcycle that's 27 years old.

Broke down. Well, you said it was older than me broke down. That's it.

Yeah, yeah, that's. That's it. And like I mentioned, you know, the Bullying.

You know that there's a. There's a lot of people during this lockdown, Jeremy, that have. Have realized that their spouse no longer is a match because they've been locked up with them. They hate their kids. People loathe their kids. They. A lot of people have developed a mental illness like that.

They.

They're freaking out. So I'm glad that your problem is very fixable. If you want. What do you want? What do you need for your bike? I'll send it to you. What do you need? A new water pump? What does it need?

No, I don't need a water Bikes as old as mine don't have water pumps.

Like, what do you need? A chain? What do you. What is it? Like a Flintstone one? You need a new pair of tennis shoes so you can paddle along. What do you need? Whatever it is, Adam and I can figure it out. These are problems we can fix. Like, if you said. If you said my wife and I no longer a match, I can't fix that. But if you need a new chain for your motorcycle, it's. It's on its way. What is it? What is wrong with the motorcycle? You need a soldering iron to fix a wire? What?

You're making me sad right now with the things that you're saying.

What is wrong with the bike?

No, cam went flat. Essentially, it needs. The engine needs to be taken apart, looked at, and put back together with new parts.

But isn't that kind of the fun of being who you are? Like, you like to take things apart, you like to fix them. You're a mechanic at heart. So isn't this really a blessing?

It's. It would be a blessing if I had another motorcycle, but now I don't have any motorcycles and.

Well, this should give you some more drive to fix it, right?

Yeah. I just really think that perspective here is what's off. It's the opportunity. Is there, like, the chance to. Can we increase the horsepower by putting in. So can we board out? What can we do?

Like I mentioned, Chris, it's older than you. There's only so much I can do to it. It's to make it better.

Okay, why don't we. Why don't we take the Metro into the city and why don't we buy ourselves a new bike?

I'm afraid that I have an attachment to this one, so I think.

Yeah, but you're saying you. You want a backup. Why don't you go get yourself a newer, younger, hotter model and then have the older one around, too? You can. Then you can kind of choose your adventure.

You know, I think that if I. If I had. If I didn't have kids, I could definitely go buy one. But I will say that.

My children are amazing, but they do consume motorcycle money. So, unfortunately, I've got the motorcycle.

I've got.

Could we get your wife on here? Because she's a great salesperson and I feel like she could just sell a couple things and the motorcycle thing would be handled.

She desperately wants to talk to you, Kris. She desperately does.

I would love it. Can we get her on. Can she be on next time? And we're going to talk about how do we. How do we have a second stream of income that provides daddy with a new motorcycle? These are the kind of things I'm good at figuring out.

You know, she might say unkind things, so I don't think that's even more.

Reason to have her on here to you.

So I think that. I think we're good with the way we are.

Okay, so then what we've established is after we go all the way around the cul de sac and we come back, there's really not a problem in terms of.

In terms of the world falling apart.

My motorcycle is a much smaller problem. But still.

You know, everything's on the sliding scale. I miss my bike.

Okay.

I love how it just comes back to the bike.

I think you had a great word, buddy. You had a great idea, Jeremy, to.

Have an epiphany to skip books.

You had a great idea to skip books and talk about your favorite podcast.

Oh, I'd love to talk about my favorite podcast.

Okay, well, you can go. You can certainly go first if you want.

Well, my favorite podcast. Well, it actually, it hasn't been on.

For a little while.

It's a deep cut. So it hasn't been. I haven't done episodes in a little while, and I don't really know why, but it was this podcast called Business Outlaws. It had this dude named Big Mike and he was a co host of some other guy. I don't remember who he was. But, like, they would have, like, amazing business strategies. They'd interview, like, definitely some fringe figures. Some. Some businesses that weren't auto in a lot of cases. So they'd go. They talk to the dude that ran Outlaw Circus. They talked to Tim Larkin, who does self defense.

A really good police captain in Las Vegas that talked about community.

Policing, like Sasha Lecky.

Really? Yes. It's really cool because they teach you about. They talk about leadership and about managing a business. But not in the traditional sense. It's about managing businesses that are off the grid in some cases. For example, with.

Rick Ross was one of them. So, I mean, it's really cool because there's a lot of concepts that are similar across no matter what business it is or no matter what organization. But it's cool to hear the nuances of different. Of different people and how they. How they would lead and how they would manage businesses. So I don't know why they're not making episodes anymore, but I wish they would. And, yeah, if you. If you happen to know that the obscure host. I know you don't know Big Mike very well, but if you did, you tell them to make some more episodes, I think that'd be great.

It's. It's funny you bring that up, and we didn't. You wouldn't tell me what your favorite podcast was, so I didn't know that that was your answer, but we had a meeting about that today, actually.

Awesome.

So there might be bigger and better things coming. We'll see. But, yeah, the. What is your favorite Business Outlaws episode.

I don't know. It alternated between. I liked the Tyson episode a lot. Who did not seem to like me very much. Or was it. Was it you or Big Mike? He didn't like very much, but he had a weird attitude that day.

I like that one. I like the one with Rick Rossin a lot and the one with Tim Larkin a lot. That's why they. Those three people stuck in my mind. I think those episodes I came away with a lot.

Yeah, those are good ones. Have you ever heard it, Adam?

No, I have not.

Oh, you'd like it.

So now I feel like I gotta go find the deep cut.

I would say one of my favorite ones was Sasha Larkin, the captain. She's a captain on the Las Vegas Police Department. Just because somebody who's in a position like that that really is governed by politics in a lot of ways, has made such a huge impact by thinking different. Kind of reminds me a lot of you two in a way where you. You guys don't think like your typical factory employees, and you really want to get a result, you don't want to be right. And, like, for example, like, they figured out a way to cut down domestic violence fatalities to zero by changing up. Like she says in there, like, we're really good at arresting people, but, you know, we're cops. What about putting somebody in a shelter and, you know, the paperwork and the restraining order and all the stuff that needs to happen to protect somebody's somebody's life that's battered, that her approach and her mindset is just, you know, you wish everybody in, you know, service, government service and politics was that way and had that same passion. So I'd say that's one of my favorites. You like that one a lot, Adam? Okay. What is your favorite podcast?

I'd say one thing that I've been just turned on from one of my mentors here at the office is how I built this with Guy Raz. So as from, you know.